001Call the order. Pledge of allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Assembly, roll call. Mrs. Denny, Mrs. Ellis, Mr. Heftton, Dr. Huber here, Mrs. Jones here, Mr. Maninelli here, Mr. Ces, Mr. Twistler here, Mr. Ar here. 2.01 is the approval of minutes. Motion to approve the minutes of the March 26, 2025 board meeting. Do you have this motion? So move. Second. Questions or comments? All those in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. 2.02 is the invoice listing. Motion is to approve the invoice listing for March through April of 2025. I have this motion. So moved. Second. Questions or comments? All those in favor? Opposed. Motion passes. 2.03. Chargers report. Mr. As of
002February 28, 2025, Pendelo's balance was 54,613,354. During March 2025, local, state, and federal revenues totaled $2,840,745. Dispersements were issued in the amount of 6,768,922. As of March 31st, 2025, Pendelo's current balance is 50,685,177. The motion is to approve the treasures report for March 2025. That is a motion. So move. Questions or comments? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Uh 2.04 is budget transfer report. Motion is to put approve the budget transfer report from March through April of 2025. This motion. So moved. Second. Questions or comments? Any? All those in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. Number three, student representatives report to the board. Good evening. I'll get started with some excite exciting sports information from this p past month. Track and field is very successful halfway through its season. Congrats to Xavier Howard and Jacob
003Summers for making districts with their main events along with the boys 4x100 meter relay team also making districts consisting of the Xavier Howard, Kayen Robinson, Jack Pinson, and Mandy Waden. Congrats to Mandy for also making nationals once again for the 110 hurdles. This Saturday is the team's unvitational meet at Westchester University. This is their last meet before Delos. Pen relays are also running from April 24th to 26th. Additionally, track and field will be holding a fundraiser, come together, run together, from 2 to 5 this Saturday, April 27th. 25% of the donations are going to the Eagles Autism Foundation. For girls lacrosse, senior Angelina Ellis reached over 200 career saves. For boys lacrosse, junior JP Griswald reached 500 career saves over this past weekend. And boys lacrosse will also be hosting a car wash fundraiser on
004Sunday. Next, many students have been taking advantage of the AP pra p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p practice testing opportunities that Sun Valley has in the mic this Tuesday and next Tuesday, students are allowed to choose two AP classes, usually their harder APs, to take a full length AP test. This allows students to get rid of the nerves they may experience on the day of the real test. Next, senior prom tickets are on sale this whole week for the big day on May 9th. Many seniors are also attending meeting meetings and planning for the senior class trip to Disney. Personally, I'm very
005excited for both. Lastly, Arts Live will take place on May 21st. Art teachers have been flagging each students best artwork the whole year to put them out on display for all to see. Come check it out. Good evening. This Friday is junior prom and it will take place at the waterfall in Klemont, Delaware. It will be from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. In addition, the junior class trip is approaching and there will be a meeting for the parents and students attending Tuesday, April 29th at 7:00 p.m. in the Sun Valley Auditorium. The freshman trip is approaching soon and it will be Saturday, May 17th, and they will be going to Hershey Park. Next Wednesday, April 30th, is the concert choirs concert. It'll be at 7:00 p.m. and is free to attend. April 10th before spring break
006was the band concert and the Sun Valley Marching Band theme for 2025 had been revealed. The band will be performing with music from Alice in Wonderland. Keystones will be held from Monday, May 12th to Monday, May 19th, and the school will be using a two-lay schedule and students who are not testing are able to come in later. AP exams will also be occurring that same week. Thank you. Thank you, ladies. Olivia, we will Oh, there's two there. [Music] To Olivia, you can take it and put it on your dorm. Uh, yeah. Come say hi to me. Well, since we won't see you in May and we will see you at graduation, but maybe senior awards, senior awards, right? That's a possibility, right? So, Maline, you going to move your sheet piece down or are we
007afraid that are we afraid the advisor is going to say no, she can't support you as you move on to your senior year? There you go. Before you go, Olivia, I I am curious. What's the secret to all the success of Sun Valley this year? Because I've been up there a lot and I see I see really good things going on. Good. It's got a good vibe. I keep using that term, just great vibe all year long. It's just both of your classes are just filled with cool kids. What's going on? I would definitely say uh not underestimating yourself. You definitely can do more than you think you can. Okay, I like that. What do you think the secret is? Um I agree with that. And I also think doing as much as you can
008is like the key. Getting involved. Staying involved. Yeah. Okay. I've seen that too. Yeah. Coming out of co like people were still like afraid to get involved but not anymore. Yeah. I think the freshman especially this year, they've been like making certain stuff like ping pong club or like the color room we had like participation is like skyrocketed. So like they definitely helped with clubs and stuff. I agree. Yeah. Same with like going to dances and stuff. Yeah. When my brother was in high school, he went to every dance. Uhhuh. Every year. And then people are like, "Oh, I don't want to go to the dance." But but they're coming back. It's coming back. Yeah. They're like bring back. It's coming back. Okay. That's great to hear. Okay. Well, we'll see who goes around the
009rest of your year. Thank you. All right. Uh there is no DCIU report tonight. Uh number five, Dr. Style, superintendent. Thank you, Mr. I'll prevent that from moving here. As I mentioned each month, I like to recap uh thank the board for coming out and spending time study session. We had it a week ahead of spring break because spring break this year. Uh thank you Mr. Zley for putting together the proposed final budget presentation. We appreciate the board's support and your interest in those details. We've reviewed all agenda items in advance of today's voting meeting and we also had the opportunity to discuss the incredible growth that we're really thrilled with in the number of students who are registering for dual enrollment opportunities at Sun Valley High School. Uh we continue to use any opportunity
010we can including tonight to remind parents that kindergarten registration remains open. Uh this indicates 135 I think we're up to 138 incoming kindergarten students. Um please register now if you have a child turning 5 years old uh on or before September 1st. Um we will have a very popular event that we hold kindergarten parent orientation. Um, so the board will start to see this kind of information that will start to go out, but it'll also be specifically mailed to those parents who have already enrolled uh and registered. So May 12th, May 13th, we have an evening opportunity for parents around the district and we have a daytime opportunity to really talk about everything that can be expected uh at kindergarten. Dr. Huber probably remembers those events with her years of working as a kindergarten teacher,
011a panel. PSA testing underway underway. I'm not like super thrilled about it. I think the board knows how I feel uh about uh the value in state testing relative to the amount of hours that we put into it, what we actually test for, how it's relevant to what uh careers are ahead for students, there's a lot of questions there. Um but as long as the state is still requiring us to give a test, we're going to give the test. We're going to ask our kids to do the best that they can. Um knock on wood for a great thing, great reports today. uh from the online testing. So, we've moved away from paperbased testing uh at the elementary level. This is second year that the middle school has had online testing. We've heard generally good
012things um about the first shot at it. Um I have been asked u by some parents um does it hurt to opt your child out? Does that impact the school district? And it absolutely does. It absolutely does. If parents choose to opt their kids out of the test for religious reasons, a couple things happen. The school district has to have 95% participation rate. Otherwise, there's consequences and they have to submit a plan uh to to remedy that. Part of our school district rankings are based on growth over time. And if a student doesn't take a test, uh we can't measure their growth over time. And then of course if a student doesn't pass the test that's one less person one less student that would count towards achievement in our district. So opting out because of
013religious objection some specific uh fundamental principle uh in which you don't want your child to undergo an academic test because of your religion. Um, that is a right that parents have, but I I I have been clear to parents, it absolutely does have a detrimental effect on school district rankings. So, uh, really thrilled a lot of things that happened last year, I'm sorry, last month. Kindergarten, uh, Coburn's kindergarten comedy club. You know, this started last year uh when I had asked and actually kind of challenged our kindergarten teachers to create some type of meaningful activity that will enable us to jumpstart the opportunity for kids to speak in public. So, when we talk about developing communication skills, like why wait until high school? Why not start in kindergarten? And they came up with a wonderful
014idea, which is to do a unit on jokes. And they had the students go up on the stage and deliver their own joke. uh at the Coburn kindergarten comedy club. Uh now the the group that did it last year is now first graders there and the first graders are actually doing uh we're working on what's known as a kind of Teddy talks kind of thing. So we're really trying to find ways to start building these meaningful skills early on in kids' careers, not later. And it was hilarious. It was wonderful. Kids did a fantastic job. We were celebrating autism acceptance. Uh so important in our district. I can remember a time we didn't have any autistic programs in our district and we do now and that means so much to me and to our board
015and to our community. Um that students with autism can go to the schools that their kids go that their brothers and sisters go to and uh did a fantastic job of that particularly with a a superstar event at Panel Elementary. Sun Valley also held uh the run and rain rally uh to benefit support special Olympics. Um in addition to uh the event itself in terms of raising funds, students also have the opportunity to show their commitment to inclusion and that that is so evident when you go through Sun Valley. Students are embracing their peer buddy classes. Uh our high school is open to everybody and we want everyone to feel welcome and feel like they belong. Sun Valley does a wonderful job with that. Uh real pleased uh to mention that we received a grant
016for $5,961 from the Giant Foundation. So when parents are asked, would you like to round up uh your uh final total uh and donate some money to your local school district? That money added up to quite a number, $5,961. So u we took a photo over at Coburn. try a different school each year for a photo op. But this money will be used uh to help students in our district uh who are having uh challenges paying for their lunch charges and paying for their meals in Pendulka. So we had our mock interview day and uh we're really excited that we're going to have a uh an updated video from this event. Mr. Gangle putting that together. Um had an opportunity to interview a lot of people. But what a great event this was. I had
017a parent reach out to me uh suggesting that we teach kids how to write resumes. This is an elementary school parent. So they'll they'll kind of learn about like well we do more than that. You know we actually bring in uh folks from the uh community put all of our students, all of our seniors through an actual interview. They come in, they dressed up, they they look fantastic, they were prepared. uh they walked through their resumes, they talked about the cover letters, they answered questions, and just what a great opportunity for students at Sun Valley who even if you're going for an interview as for a part-time job during a summertime somewhere where you're nervous, you're like, what's it going to be like? You kind of you've gone through this, you know, you feel confident
018like I could do that. I can go on an interview. So, I'm really thrilled that they continue to do a great job of that of the sun. Uh same day, Northley also hosted career day and uh I'm looking down the bottom there, I see uh our own Mr. Mansinelli uh was in talking about careers and entrepreneurship. Thank you, John. Uh in the far right, Mr. Heftton, I have to tell you, his one I heard was extremely popular. His presentation about working for the postal service was an enormous hit. Enormous hit. He had kids carrying the bag, you know, to say, you know, what you have to do as a mailman. uh did a wonderful job. So, sixth grade they had guest speakers. Seventh grade we had local businesses come in and then eighth grade actually
019started to explore career pathways and options in high school. Fantastic day. Really big event at Northley. Um you know, we have an administrator who uh came to us recently. He has kids in Northley and I was asking I always say, "How's it going? How's it going? How's it going?" He said, "You know what? I love that school." He said, "The staff's fantastic. I had a chance to get like an inside look at at Northley and like as a parent, I couldn't be happier." So, um, Northley just keeps hitting home runs. U, congratulations to music teacher Laura Luka, uh, who was acknowledged as just one of 20 educators, uh, in Delaware Valley. So, it's now a multi-county award. Uh, and also, uh, the very smart senior, uh, Aiden Hearn, uh, was elected to the all Delo
020HighQ team. I was happy to be at that event, uh, just a few Thursdays ago. If you look at what we have coming up, oh my goodness, uh there's something happening just about every single night. So, you know, we talk about concerts and art creations, uh that kicked off on April 10th. Um and move goes right on through to May 29th. As the girls mentioned, Arts Alive is the big event on Wednesday, May 21. Um but we have any number of concerts and art shows as well throughout the uh school district. I want to kind of show you where we are with Portrait of Graduate 2.0. zero. Uh next week I have I'll be holding two Zoom um meetings, one on Monday night, one on Wednesday night. First Monday night with some parents who have
021been randomly selected and invited to participate. We're going to ask the parents to help us uh best define what we mean about these seven C's that are part of our portrait of a graduate. In other words, what do parents think when we say what is critical thinking all about? How do you define collaboration? How do you define creativity? and then get their perspective on what skills would they like to see our students have before they walk across that stage. And I've already heard from some so some parents have said budgeting like the the idea that like there's just there's an end to money sometimes if you have to have some content. You can't always just put it on a credit card. So budgeting, how to write a resume, how to use AI responsibly, um how
022to manage your time, how to set goals, right? How to stay organized. So I'm really looking forward to hearing from some of the parents who are going to help us define some skills that we'd like to set and then we will backmap that and say well what can we do in K K to five, what can we do in middle school and what can we do in high school to make sure that we really hit these things. So it's more than just a poster. Um but we're really pleased part of our comprehensive plan requires there's two elements to it to kind of update this and bring our portrait of graduate back to life a little bit. Um this is kind of where we are. Uh we'll get feedback from staff. We'll get we've already had
023our administrators doing a deep dive on this and then we'll hear from some parents. We'll bring some recommendations back to the board that next year we can kick the year off and remind staff like this is what matters to us and to our community. We want kids to be confident. If you don't have any skills and you can't do the job, you're not going to get the job. But we also want you to be persons of character. We want you to be connected. So we added that kind of seven C there. Connection is a really critical piece here because we're learning that students who aren't connected tend to have more mental health issues, tend to be more challenged in terms of depression, and we're hearing that societywide, right? Like screens are taking us away from
024one another and that has an impact. We heard from our student representative tonight, hey, kids are more involved. And I'm seeing that, right? So it's important that I think we make sure that our students are connected to the world outside of of Pendelt but also to others around them in Pendelt that when kids come to school they say I have great group of friends. I have trusted adults that I can go to. I make connections with people in the field where I intend to work. Those are kind of things that we can do to increase the value uh and the happiness of our students that are there. And then uh we will be in just a few weeks uh recognizing u teacher staff appreciation week. So uh really pleased with the teacher uh staff giveaway
025that we have that we give to everybody on behalf from the board and the administration. So we're excited about giving that out. Um and we'll take a moment really to celebrate all of our all of our staff. So there's a number of different days, bus driver days, school nurse days, uh administrative professional days. We at Pendalfo tender say it's not just teacher appreciation day, it's just staff appreciation week. A lot of our ptls do a number of things as well for our teachers and and we've we've just got great employees here in Pendulko. So we're looking forward to that week. Thank you for your time tonight. Thank you Dr. Stock. Announcements for the public tonight. The board met in executive session to discuss personnel litigation matter. Any comments by members of the board? See no
026comments by members of the public. All right. Uh board action starts on page two, carries on through page three, ends on page four. This references budget 2024 to 2025 act 93 plans PDA agreement the desperate agreement PD SSPA agreements PA school code section 108 weekly it is the administrative recommendation to approve all personnel items as presented do I have this motion so move second questions or comments all those in favor opposed motion passes so tonight consent agenda will be for 10.03 03 through 10.18. We are adding 10.18 tonight. I'll read that uh before we ask for a vote. Uh 10.8 reads, "Motion authorizes district solicitor to file an administrative appeal to Delaware County Bureau of Elections decision to relocate the polling place." So with that, does any board member wish to vote separately? All right.
027So I need a motion for 10.03 through 10.18. Please note that all bids are subject to solicitor review. So moved. Second. Questions or comments? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Any comments by members of the public? Comments by members of the board. Like to mention uh Mr. Brying, our science teacher at the high school saw him today. He is ready to host the board to show off the planetarium. Um we had talked about potentially Wednesday the 21st. I think there's going to be a lot of conflicts there though, but I forgot we have the audience alive that night. Um pattern was listed. Um so if it's okay with the board, I'll just talk to him and find out like what might work. You know, maybe it'll be that third Wednesday in June. Like
028I know you guys all different schedules. It be better to pick a night that you planning on being here. Um but he's he is happy to show off the planetarium now. He feels ready to do a nice job. Thank. All right. Our next meetings are Wednesday, May 21st at Penel Elementary. Study sessions at PE the next month and then May 28th. Um, um, it'll depend on our turnout in terms of number of retirees. Actually, we will amend that. More than likely, we'll have the board meeting here. It's just just a better location to recognize retirees. Um, and what we're looking at doing potentially is inviting the young author winners in for the start of the meeting and inviting the retirees about 15 minutes later so that it's just not too crowded and too chaotic. We
029have a lot of young author winners this year. We really do. And u I think they've come to really appreciate the opportunity to come before the board in May. That's where I think would stagger un unless you have an enormously large group. As you guys know, sometimes the the auditorium is just not the best venue. So, we're not expecting a crowd in the audience. It makes more sense to just have it here. So, we'll make sure that's reflected in the agenda. All right. Motion for German. So, moved.